Following on from TIME's list of the most important and influential gadgets of the decade, it has now released its top ten best games. With the Switch being recognised as the number one gadget in 2017, you would think a Nintendo game released around the same time would be featured in this list, and sure enough, one has been.

We would argue there are a few notable omissions such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and perhaps even Blizzard's Overwatch, but what do you personally think? Does this list hit the nail on the head in terms of the ten best games of the decade? Share your thoughts below.

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Fortnite is hardly one of the best games of the year, let alone the entire decade. But it's definitely one of the biggest games, made the most headlines, and has absolutely taken the school yards by storm. That's indisputable.

I've never heard of or played Disco Elysium. So I can't speak for its impact. But I suspect everything else on this list are games that (along with and maybe or as a byproduct, huge sales) went beyond the gaming community and in some ways, out into pop culture. Obviously to varying degrees.

This list doesn't make sense by any account. Is it by most popular games? Because I'm fairly certain Undertale would have made it on this list due to its massive popularity. Is it by the games that generated the most money? Because there are a ton of other mobile games that surpassed Pokemon go in terms of profit. Is it by fan favorite games? Still missing a ton of very popular fan favorites that would go on this list above others listed. It just seems like this list was made by them pulling in the janitor and asking him to quickly say the first 10 games he could think of. That's the only way this list would make any sense.

Time tends to put their lists more around cultural influence and impact not critical review or quality.

Which is why I do not believe Disco Elysium, a game that just came out in October and has had so little impact that even avid gamers who simply prefer a different platform, have not heard of it, like @Tyranexx and myself - belongs on this list.

Every other game on this list was massively popular and well known even people people who don't play games. Disco Elysium might get to that level eventually but it certainly shouldn't be on this list.

I think of the last decade as the one where indie games exploded in popularity. I haven’t played Disco Elysium yet , but I think it is an example of one that points to the potential of of small studios making more ambitious games.

Pretty good list honestly, better than I'd expect from a non-gaming magazine. If you replace Portal 2 and Disco Elysium with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Undertale, this serves as a pretty good cross-section of the different types of games people have been playing for the past decade.

@A_standard_idiotFortnite is absolutely one of the best games of the decade. Love it or hate it, it is probably one of the most innovative games of the decade in terms of ushering in new technologies and ways of experiencing online events/gameplay.

@RhaoulosI disagree. Skyrim feels clunky and tedious now, but at the time...it was still clunky and tedious, but you can’t deny that it was a fun and massively influential game, without it there would be no Witcher 3 (which is also clunky and tedious, it’s a great game, but it’s massively overrated).

I think this list is aiming at games that changed their genres or innovated with something new/different.

It’s understandable why they put Skyrim up there and not Witcher 3, even though the latter is better. They sorta blend together and are in the same field. While Skyrim was followed its predecessor in similar fashion, it still a very deep game for the time. It was later in the previous generation and made some innovations in the genre.

Pokémon GO was a phenomenon onto itself since it was engaging audiences to get outside and “collect” virtual monsters.

Do I really need to explain Breath of the Wild?

TIME doesn’t do games on a regular basis, plus you’re sampling a broad brush with games of the decade too. I wouldn’t read into their list much, TIME isn’t a gamers first choice for reading material.

Pretty good list. Even if I don't personally like some of those games, most of them are groundbreaking and highly influential. The ones I would contest are Skyrim and GTA, because they are mostly iterating on what's been done many, many times. However, I recognize that Skyrim basically made RPGs a mainstream thing.

@rockodoodle Because Dark Souls has been on most game developers' minds since its release? Even if it's not as played as something like Fortnite, its ideas about challenge, storytelling and risk/reward can be seen in so many games, from Shovel Knight to Hollow Knight and Jedi: Fallen Order. I'm willing to bet even Breath of the Wild took a page from Dark Souls, with the way combat works and hand holding being almost eliminated. On top of that, Dark Souls spawned an entire genre of games that almost directly lift systems from it, such as Nioh, Lords of the Fallen, Salt & Sanctuary and Code Vein.

@mjharper : World of Warcraft was released all the way back in 2004 (I remember it vividly as it the same year that DOOM 3, The Sims 2, and Half Life 2 was released, perhaps one of the biggest years for PC gamers).

Frankly, I'm amazed that it is still doing so spectacularly well, even seeing the latest expansion pack and the classic rerelease advertised on buses and trams here in Sydney.

@rockodoodle Maybe. My counterpoint would be that Mario Kart hasn’t done anything significantly new since the 90s. It’s basically the same game with a nicer coat of paint. Quality comfort food, perhaps, but not anything to be celebrated as ”of the decade”. I haven’t played much Smash, but it seems similar in that regard.

@hiptanaka well, I disagree about MK, especially that it hasn't changed since the 90s. And that u can play the identicle console version in handheld mode is pretty groundbreaking. Plus, I would say culturally, MK has had a far bigger impact than most on that list.